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The absurd is paradoxical in the sense that it cannot be grasped by reason. [7] [8] [9] But in the context of absurdism, the term is usually used in a more specific sense. According to most definitions, it involves a conflict, discrepancy, or collision between two things. Opinions differ on what these two things are.
Theatre of the Absurd, dramatic work of certain European and American dramatists of the 1950s and early ’60s who agreed with the Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’s assessment, in his essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ that the human situation is essentially absurd, devoid of purpose.
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Das Absurde ist ein zentraler Begriff in der Philosophie des Absurden von Albert Camus und beschreibt die Konstellation zwischen dem Sinn suchenden Menschen und der sinnverneinenden Welt. Autoren, in deren Denken der Begriff des Absurden eine wichtige Rolle spielt(e):
Die Philosophie des Absurden, selten auch Absurdismus genannt, ist eine Richtung der Existenzphilosophie, die von der These ausgeht, dass das menschliche Leben absurd sei. Der Begriff Philosophie des Absurden bezieht sich im engeren Sinne auf die Philosophie von Albert Camus.
It departsfrom them only in contrasting the pretensions of lifewith a largercontext in which no standards can be discovered, rather than with a contextfrom which alternative, overriding standards may be applied. v. In thisrespect, as in others,philosophical perception of the absurd resembles epistemological skepticism.
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27. Okt. 2011 · This paradoxical situation, then, between our impulse to ask ultimate questions and the impossibility of achieving any adequate answer, is what Camus calls the absurd. Camus’s philosophy of the absurd explores the consequences arising from this basic paradox.
This chapter explores the concept of the absurd, which is often applied to the modern sense of human purposelessness in a meaningless universe. It examines the connections of the absurd to nihilism, existentialism, ontology, negative theology, jokes and socio-linguistic absurdity.
